Standard Lines

Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or lines:

“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Who will in fairest book of Nature know
How virtue may best lodged in beauty be,
Let him but learn of love to read in thee,
Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show.
There shall he find all vices’ overthrow,
Not by rude force, but sweetest sovereignty
Of reason,”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)